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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The GOP have been huffing "traditional family values" for so long they thought everyone did too. They make a jab at Harris for not fitting the traditional family values, which they thought would land with the public, but it fell flat because "traditional family values" includes the subjugation of women, abuse of children, and a big helping of toxic masculinity. Naturally those ideas are rejected by the majority of Americans today.

The GOP got high on their on supply.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

There’s this scene from The Boys S4– so spoilers abound— wherein Homelander spouts the conservative talking points to would-be donors behind closed doors and is told “yeah yeah save the talking points for the rabble.”

Which is great, as S4 is set in the stage where the Trump analogue takes power, but somehow we’re past that point irl. The guys in charge don’t seem to just be saying it for the “rabble” anymore. Sucks how far the right has moved in just a few years without losing significant support.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 month ago (4 children)

>demonizes childless cat ladies
>won't let you get IVF
>makes memes about protecting cats

what do they want from us

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

They want you barefoot and pregnant, doing dishes and being your husband’s sex toy when he’s not fucking his secretary.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

We're just not weird enough to understand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I think they are just authoritarians. They just want people to fall in line, follow orders, and shut up. Logical inconsistencies in their arguments or policies? Well fuck you logic is for nerds.

Don't want to play ball well too bad you're probably a witch anyway. Don't think the Earth is the center of everything? Do not pass go and straight to jail!

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m permanent guardian to my niece. Asswipe says I’m not invested in the future because I didn’t birth her.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't have children. I don't plan to have children. I don't think any of my partners did or do either. People can be invested in the future because they don't want future generations to suffer. If you need to have younger dependents for that, it mostly makes me think you have a rather narrow world view.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People can be invested in the future because they don't want future generations to suffer. If you need to have younger dependents for that, it mostly makes me think you have a rather narrow world view.

These are the same people whose only reason for not murdering people is the belief that they will be tortured for eternity if they do.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Well in the eyes of the GOP you could just tear up the paperwork and walk away at any time, so clearly it doesn’t count.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember when I was a fundamentalist evangelical christian pro-life activist in my late preteens/early teens (picketing clinics was a favorite family activity), we used to have signs that said 'Adoption: the loving option'.

Turns out, maybe they don't care about adoption anymore. Just wombs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

A lot of these fucks like adoption, only because kids who've been bounced from foster to foster are way easier to indoctrinate into things. Just need to show them some attention.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Many are childless because they have been beholden to corporations and rich people far more than their parents were. They never had an opportunity to give their kids at least the life they had, so they opted not to have them. It's not that they didn't want them. They responded to the situation they were given.

I see these folks with generational wealth who have 16 children. It must be nice, but they're just another side of the same problem.

Chiding people for being childless is possibly the most tone-deaf take ever, and even more so from rich, corpo pawns.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What do you expect from a political party that would rather sling poop than policy ideas (or concepts of ideas)?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who would have thought that being terrible people would be a bad strategy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Well, it worked 2016 right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

DoNT cAlL us DePloRAbles

Childless women are useless and people with degrees are worse people.

Lesson failed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (42 children)

Can Trump’s aides run in his place? They seem way smarter.

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